Beginnings

We all know the stories of how creative people get into the business of creating for a living, but how did they start using their imaginations in the first place? On the Beginnings podcast, writer and performer Andy Beckerman asks well-known and up-and-coming comedians, musicians, writers and artists about their earliest creative acts and about other formative childhood experiences.

On today's episode I talk to writer, stand-up and union
organizer
Nato Green. Nato lives and was raised in San Francisco, and the
city's progressive atmosphere pervades everything he does. Nato
wrote for Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on FX and
toured nationally with Kamau & Janine Brito as "Laughter
Against the...

On today's episode I talk to musician
Elaiza Santos. Originally from Queens, Elaiza is the lead
singer of the amazing chiptunes pop band
Crying, who have two EPs out on Run For Cover Records, both of
which are very much worth your time. Elaiza also records music on
her own - originally under the name Whatever, Dad -...

On today's episode I talk to playwright and TV writer Sofia Alvarez. Originally from
Baltimore, Sofia graduated from Juilliard for playwriting. She is a
member of the Ars Nova Playgroup and Primary Stages Dorothy
Streslin New American Writer’s Group, and her work has been seen
everywhere from Primary Stages to Ars...

On today's episode I talk to
Suki Kim, a novelist, investigative journalist and the only
writer ever to go live undercover in North Korea to investigate
and write a book from the inside. In 2002, she travelled to
North Korea, where she witnessed both Kim Jong-il’s 60th Birthday
celebrations as well as his death, and...

About the Podcast

We all know the stories of how creative people get into the business of creating for a living, but how did they start using their imaginations in the first place? On the Beginnings podcast, writer and performer Andy Beckerman asks well-known and on-their-way-up comedians, musicians, writers, artists and thinkers about their earliest creative acts, their formative childhood experiences, and how they've developed both creatively and emotionally over the years. Beginnings is part therapy, part philosophy and almost all fascinating (95% according to FDA studies).